Device for supporting garments in boxes



H. T. LOOMIS DEVICE FOR SUPPORTING GARMENTS IN BOXES Filed Oct. '7, 1921 ;\//3 I anomtoz fg V Harry Z'Loowz's ////4//// ms 6mm Patented Jan. 15, 1924.

UNITED STATES 1,480,687 PATENT OFFICE.

HARRYT. LOOMIS, 0F JAMAICA, NEW YORK.

nEvIcE'roa SUPPORTING GARMENTS IN BOXES.

Application filed October 7, 1921. Serial No. 506,060.

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This invention relates to the supporting of garments of various kinds and classes in boxes or other containers for shipment, storage or the like and particularly to the storage or shipment ofburial garments or the 1ike,'and the objectof the invention. is to provide a frame or reel which is adapted to be mounted in a box or other container and retained therein against displacement or movement and provided with means adapted to operate in connection with a garment placed in said box or container and which will serve to support or hold said garment in a predetermined position in the box or container, and with this and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class and for the purpose specified which is simple in construction and efiicient in use, and which is constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the accompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Fig. 1 is a plan view of a box-shaped container showing a burial. garment placed therein and supported by one of my improved devices and indicating the cover of said box-shaped container in section;

Fig. 2 a partial section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 a perspective detail view of the garment supporting device shown in Figs. 1 and 2; and,

Fig. 4 a partial section on the line 44 of Fig. 2 on an enlarged scale.

For the purpose of illustrating one use of my invention, I have shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 4 of the drawing an elongated boxshaped container 5 comprising a bottom 6, side walls 7 and end walls 8, said box-shaped container being open at the top and is provided with a removable cover 9 as is usually employed in connection with containers of the class specified. The container 5 is adapted to receive a dress 10, as'shown in Figs. 1 and 2 and.fin practice, a suitable garment hanger 11 is provided and is detachably mounted in connectionwith one end wall 8 of the container as shown in the drawing and in connection with which the garment or dress 10 is also mounted as clearly shown in Fig. 1.

The above described construction is old and forms no part of my invention and, in

practice, I provide 'a garment supporting frame or reel 12, shown indetail in Fig 3 of the drawing, which isadapted to be in serted into the container 5 and to operate in connection with the dress 10 thereof as hereinafter set out. The supporting frame 12, in the construction shown, comprises two parallel side strips 13 preferably composed of cardboard and the lowercorner portions of which are rounded to a slight extent as shown at 14:, and said strips ar'econnected adjacentto one end thereof by a transverse strip 15 of wood or similar material which is located centrally or midway between the top and bottom edges of the strips 13, as clearly shown in Figs. 2 and 3 of the drawing and another strip 16 similar to the strip 15 secured to the strips 13 at a predeten.

mined distance from the other end portions of said strips 13 and adjacent to the lower edges of said strips as clearly shown in Figs. 2, 3 and 4 ofthe drawing.

In the use of the device the skirt portion 17 of the dress or garment 10 is first placed in the box-shaped container 5 in the manner shown inFigs. 1 and 2, after which the frame or reel 12 is placed in the box and with the strips 13 thereof inwardly of the sides 7 of the box with the ends of the strips 13 engaging the end walls 8 of the box, as clearly shown in Figs. 1 and 2, after which the body portion 18 of the dress is passed around the strip 15 as shown at 19 in Fig. 2 of the drawing and laid upon the skirt portion 17 of the dress and the hanger 11 previously connected with the dress is secured to or mounted in the end wall 8 of the boxor container 5, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, after which the cover 9 of the con tainer 5 is placed in position or passed over said container in.the.usual manner and the top face 9 of said cover operates in con- 1 and hanger against movement in the box-- shaped container.

It will be apparent that by reason of the location of the transverse strip 16, the same Will operate to bear upon the top face of the skirt portion 17 of the dress 10 to frictionally hold said skirt in proper position in the container and the body portion 18 of the dress Will be supported between the .hanger 11 and the strip 15, and thus the garment or dress 10 will, whenthe cover 9 is in position be supported and held against movement 1n the box-shaped container 5.

It Will also be apparent that by removing the cover 9 the dress 'or-other'garment may be readily displayed in the container and exhibited therein, and while I have-shown and described a specific method of carrying my invention into effect or, in other words, a specific use of the frame 12, it will heapparent that I am not necessarily limited to this'use,'andvarious changes in and'modifications of the constructionherein shown and described maybe made, within'the scope of the appended claims, without departing said strips, and the other "of saidtra-nsverse members being located lcentrally of the top and bottom edges of said strips.

3. A device .for supporting garments in containers comprising'a frame composed of elongated strips and spaced transversemembers rigidly secured to said strips adjacent to the opposite end portions thereof and serving to space said strips one from the other, said frame being adapted to be detachably mounted in a container, the'strips of said frame being adapted to be located adjacent to the inner faces of the side walls of the container, the ends of which are adapted to engage the 'end walls of said container, and the transverse members 'being located in different longitudinal :pl-anes. In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name this 5th-day of-Oct., 1921.

HARRY T. 'LOOMIS. 

